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[Readingandeating @knreadergirl]

Check out my review for Trans Sister Radio @ChrisBohjalian Should be mandatory reading! #weekendreads #bookbloggers http://t.co/nJ964OnrQ1

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

It’s surprising that this isn’t common practice in 2026. In the television era, it made sense that, with limited channels and only a few hours of prime time, the public could only watch short clips. But our default expectation in the Internet age should be full access.

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

Canada is coming onchain 🇨🇦🌐

[Readingandeating @knreadergirl]

@gray_newfield How frustrating 😂we need 🧿

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

Just got home from Bitcoin Las Vegas, and these signs were the first things I noticed when checking out at my local CVS.

Let me repeat what Miles is saying: IF WE DON’T DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO USE CASH, WE WILL LOSE IT.

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

Hard money creates good times

[Gianluca Minoprio @gminoprio]

This is real tap to pay. I don’t think people fully get it from the video.

Press the Action Button (available on every iPhone since the 15 Pro) → open @USDCharm -> Face ID to trigger scanning mode → tap the reader → get the quote and auto-pay

This is what I expect when people talk about tap to pay for Lightning.

I’m going to daily-use it once Square auto-updates merchants

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

💯💯💯

You’re exactly right. Apple Pay feels magical because all of the friction has been removed.

Why make the user review the amount being paid when it’s already displayed on the terminal and the fees are negligible? Why force the user to confirm again when they’ve already done so implicitly via Face ID?

Crypto wallets generally have way too many multi-step flows with lots of advanced options. I’m still haunted from my first experience with MetaMask when I had to manually set the nonce to replace a stuck transaction.

What Apple is so good at is understanding the user’s context and intent. If you’re standing in front of a cashier with your phone out, your wallet open, and a card selected, we can be 99.99% sure that you’re ready to pay, so they make the rest fast and painless. It sounds small, but I think that’s where the magic comes from - when you use an Apple product you feel understood; it feels like someone cares about you.

Apple Pay is so smooth that the flow can be completed unconsciously. No thinking required. It just feels natural like a handshake. Steve was right when he said the goal is to make these devices and apps feel like an extension of ourselves.

The bar is high. More work to do!

[Newf @NoahNewfield]

So much of crypto is people who have never traded professionally betting on what infrastructure they think professional traders will want to use

[Newf @NoahNewfield]

Hyperliquid is cool because Jeff and co were professional market makers. They built the product for themselves

Same reason FTX was popular

Do you think the infrastructure for the future of markets will be designed for retail or professionals?

[Newf @NoahNewfield]

Private money is the bottleneck to freedom

zcash:native

[Readingandeating @knreadergirl]

@gray_newfield Are you kidding?

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

I’m on Spirit, and the reading light has a timer 25¢ per half hour

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

How it started vs how it's going

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

The time to believe in something is now!

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

The same could be happening at every business here in New York! But instead we’re focused on punishing Ken Griffin for moving to Miami! Keep up the great work @KathyHochul @NYCMayor !

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

wen 4.7 @conductor_build

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

🙏🙏🙏
https://t.co/MKWtdP1t1b

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

X feature request: quote a post without amplifying it

Of the many things Donald and Zohran have in common, perhaps the most powerful is knowing how to harness the hate

You literally can't buy distribution this good

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

Claude's first smartphone – they grow up so fast

[Gray Newfield @gray_newfield]

What we really need is a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.